How to measure internet connection speed. Services for testing the real speed of the Internet, which is better

When buying the services of a provider, we hope that the speed of the Internet connection will be exactly the same as specified in the contract. Well, or almost like that. However, in practice, it extremely rarely corresponds to figures on paper, because it is influenced by a lot of factors - from network congestion to the state of the client device - a computer, smartphone, tablet or Smart TV. In addition, in the contract, the provider indicates the maximum, and not the actual connection speed. However, if the latter is constantly and much lower than the former, the quality of the service can be called into question.

To control the work of the provider and just be aware real speed Internet, you need to know how to define it. Thankfully there is a large number of special software and free web services, which we will get acquainted with today. But let's start with what opportunities the Windows operating system has in this regard. And also find out how to get the most reliable result.

Built-in Windows features

The easiest and fastest way to see the current Internet connection speed is in the task manager on the "Performance" tab. If the network is weakly loaded, the graph in the "Bandwidth" window will be low; if it is strong, the window will be almost completely filled with it, and the speed shown in the upper right corner will approach what is indicated in the agreement with the provider. That should be the norm. If, with a heavy network load, the speed remains low, it means that an obstacle has arisen somewhere. But where is it - with you or with him?

To find out the maximum achievable (in theory) Internet speed within a particular type of connection, open the folder " Network connections” and select the “Status” section in the context menu of your network.

The information you need is on the General tab.

The actual speed is usually 2-3 times lower than the maximum. By the way, when transferring data via Wi-Fi and via cable, it can differ significantly.

Let's say you have determined that the Internet on your computer should be faster. The next task is to find out who is to blame for the slowdown - your devices or the provider.

How to manually test your Internet connection speed

To get the most reliable result, you need to check the Internet speed on the computer to which the provider's network cable is connected. If it is not possible to insert the cable directly into the computer, for example, if it only supports wireless connections or linking the connection to the MAC address of the router, disconnect all other devices from the Internet during the check.

• Prepare a 1 GB file and select any cloud web service to which you will upload it, for example, Yandex Disk or Google Drive. It is important that the service does not limit the speed of uploading and downloading content.
• Close all programs that use the network and the Internet to unload the channel as much as possible.
• Disable VPN and proxy clients unless they are required to establish access to the WAN.
• Record the time and start uploading the file to the cloud server. Mark the end time of the download.
• Under time control, download the file back to the PC.

Knowing the file size in megabytes and the number of seconds it took to transfer it, you can easily calculate the Internet speed in Mbps. If it is close to that specified in the contract, then the provider will fulfill its obligations to you, and the reason for the slowdown is in your devices. If not, then vice versa.

For those of you who don't want to do the math, you can test your Internet speeds using the methods below. For reliability, we advise you to check several times within an hour.

Web Services

Checking the speed of the Internet using the 2ip service is as easy as shelling pears: press the "Test" button and wait 1-2 minutes.

In addition to ping indicators, as well as incoming and outgoing speeds, 2ip allows you to find out:

• Average internet speed in your city.
• Average speed indicators among subscribers of your provider.
• The best tests for all providers for the current day.
• The total number of measurements across all providers.

Such a kind of benchmark. Below on the page is a table of the last ten measurements.

By the way, on the date of the check, none of biggest leaders the market of provider services in the Russian Federation, Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan - Rostelecom, ByFly, Ukrtelecom, Kazakhtelecom, MTS, Beeline, Akado, Iota, Dom.ru, Citylink and TTK, did not become a champion. The first places were taken by small and not too well-known companies.

And further. If you have something to tell about the services of your Internet provider to other users, you can leave a review about it on the site.

- Another simple free service of a similar purpose. To start the test, just click the "Start" button. The result will be displayed on the screen in a couple of minutes.

By the way, if you register for the Speedtest (it's also free), you can save the test results in your account and share links to them with other users.

In addition to being a web service accessible online through a browser from any device, SpeedTest exists as an application for stationary (Windows, Mac OS X) and mobile (iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, Amazon) platforms.

Yandex.Internetometer

The Yandex.Internetometer service determines the speed of incoming and outgoing connections without ping. However, in addition to this, he shows detailed information about your internet connection, operating system and the browser in which you launched the check. The only pity is that benchmarks and the ability to save test results are not provided here.

To start the test, click the "Measure" button. The result, like that of competitors, appears on the screen in 1-2 minutes.

It is very reminiscent of the set of functions of the service of the same name in the “ru” domain and differs from it only in the design style. In addition to the Internet speed test button, this resource contains a rating of Ukrainian providers and indicators of the last 20 checks.

For users with Russian IPs, the 2ip.ua site opens in Russian, for residents of Ukraine - in Ukrainian.

To start testing, click the "Test" button. The result will be displayed after the same time as the others.

Banki.ru

Banki.ru uses 2 tests provided by the telecommunications company Wellink. One of them is the traditional check of the response time (ping), incoming and outgoing Internet speeds, the second is checking the quality of online video viewing. As a result of testing, the service displays brief description your connection: how fast will open new series movie, how long it will take to download an album and upload a photo to a social network, what video quality is optimal for your connection, whether the picture will freeze when watching videos through a browser.

Using the service on Banki.ru is no different from the rest.

Free programs to test the speed of the Internet on PC and mobile devices

If you use the above services several times in a row, you will notice that the Internet bandwidth indicators will always be different. This is normal, but not entirely informative, especially when the connection is intermittent. Applications, unlike web services, allow you to monitor network traffic continuously. And this is their main advantage.

NetTraffic for Windows

The utility, available in installation and portable versions, is a small window that constantly hangs in the corner of the screen, where the connection speed is displayed in real time.

In addition to current data, it collects traffic statistics for user-specified time intervals. Can monitor multiple network interfaces at the same time.

TMeter for Windows

- a more advanced Internet traffic control tool than the previous utility, but also very simple to understand and use. In addition to speed parameters, it collects statistics about the IP addresses of visited resources, ports, protocols, etc.

Tmeter has a built-in firewall and traffic distributor (traffic shaper) between devices local network. These functions become available if the program is running on a computer that is used as a gateway for other devices to connect to the Internet.

The utility is designed to monitor the entire flow of information passing through the network adapter, including the data transfer rate. Initially, it is in English, but a crack has been released for it (available on the download page), which is enough to copy to the folder with the executable file or program archive.

NetworkTrafficView works without installation and does not require special settings. Connection data is displayed as a table in the main and only window of the utility.

Internet Speed ​​Test for Android

The mobile application "Internet Speed ​​Test" is not only stylishly designed, but also very functional. In addition to collecting the main speed characteristics of Wi-Fi and 2 / 3G networks, it displays the delay time for sending packets, allows you to select a test server (its availability and remoteness affect performance), accumulates statistics and publishes the results of checks on social networks.

The application is also convenient because it supports even very old versions of Android.

Meteor - speed test for Android

Meteor - speed test - one of the few mobile applications, which received the highest user rating - 4.8 points. It not only shows the real speed of the Internet connection, but also determines how fast popular network programs will work with the current connection quality. These programs include clients social networks, browsers, Gmail, YouTube, Skype, WhatsApp, Wase navigator, google maps Maps, Uber taxi service, etc. There are 16 different applications in total.

Other advantages of Meteor are that it supports all types of network connections, including 4G, and does not contain ads.

Prostoweb decided to learn the secrets of measuring and globally checking the speed of the Internet offered by your ISP with the help of special programs and testing services: Speedtest or Speedtest, 2ip.ru, Realspeed. What is my internet speed? - after all, this question worries many Internet users. Let's study the internet speed test together!

How is internet speed measured?

Therefore, in reality, “the speed or measurement of the speed of the Internet” is nothing more than the speed of data transfer on the network, which depends on many factors.

This speed is measured in physical units as the ratio of the transmission time to the amount of information transmitted. Many have heard about indicators such as Kbps, Mbps, Gigabits / sec, they, like the speed of a car, show how quickly the desired file from the network or a web page “reaches” us.

A byte is a unit of storage and processing of digital information.

• 1 Byte = 8 bits. It is to the byte that all the large amounts of information that are calculated in computer technology are given.
• 1 kilobyte (KB) = 1024 bytes.
• 1 megabyte (MB) = 1024 KB. It is used to measure the volume of storage media.
• 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1024 MB.

Data transfer speed (connection speed) is measured in kilobits per second (Kbps). Megabits per second (Mbps) = 1024 Kbps.

Beginning Internet users often confuse kilobits with kilobytes. Therefore, let's look at an example. Imagine that, in our tariff plan, the Internet speed is 0.5 Mbps or 512 Kbps (Kb) per second. If we translate the speed into kilobytes, we get 512 Kbps / 8 = 64 Kbytes / s. It is this maximum speed that should be expected when displaying the download speed in download managers or torrent clients.

In reality, the speed will always be slightly lower than stated in the tariff plan of your provider. If you need to convert from one connection speed unit to another, use the online calculator to help you with this.

For clarity of connection speed indicators, let's imagine a typical web page that takes 100 kilobytes, a song - an average of 3072 kilobytes (3 megabytes), a movie - 1572864 kilobytes (1.5 gigabytes). Let's make a table of dependence of download speed on Internet speed.

How to test internet speed

In most cases, you have to pay for the speed of Internet access. And the higher it is, the more expensive it will cost us. The main thing that every user should be worried about is whether we really get what we pay for. To check and control the speed of the Internet, there are several groups of software products.

Online tests

These are sites that host scripts that show your speed relative to any site. It should be noted that the readings of these sites give an error. Even with two consecutive tests, you can get results that differ by 20-30%. To improve the accuracy of tests, you must turn off all programs that consume traffic. And also choose the tester that is closest to you geographically. It is useful to take some measurements different time days, given that test servers can be uploaded to certain time stock.

The most famous free sites for testing Internet speed:

• http://speedtest.net/ - one of the most famous services for testing the speed of the Internet connection. To start the test, click "Begin Test" and get the download speed and file upload speed.
• http://2ip.ru/speed/ - hoster that provides great amount tests and comprehensive information about your connection.
• http://www.speedtest.com.ua/speedtest-net.htm - a simplified version of speedtest.net.
• http://www.speedtest.com.ua/ - also a simple speed test on the Ukrainian domain. Press the "Start Test" button.
• http://realspeed.co.kz/ - another Russian-language tester.
• http://www.numion.com/YourSpeed/ - this tester can show summary statistics for 25 measurements and also allows you to check speeds against servers in different countries peace.

Programs for determining and testing Internet speed that require installation on a PC

There are very few such programs, because it is better to test the Internet download speed between your computer and remote server, which are the sites described above.

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Check internet speed in SpeedTest

http://www.speedtest.net/ru— This is the most popular service on the Internet. Over time, it has proven itself and it measures the most accurately of all services. There are of course glitches, like everyone else, but in most cases it shows exactly.

Just click START and the service will automatically find the server closest to you and measure the speed.

If suddenly something does not show exactly, try to select the service manually.

2ip

https://2ip.ru/speed/- another service that allows you to measure the speed.

Click Test, after which the speed measurement will begin. If the measurements are not accurate, we try to choose another site.

Yandex

https://yandex.com/internet/- and another most accurate test from Yandex.

Here we just click to measure the speed.

Internet speed tester

If you do not want to constantly climb services, there is a program that can measure the Internet.

It does not require installation (portable). Therefore, we select the version for the bit depth of the system and run it. We wait further, further and it is ready.

In the tray where the clock will appear a new icon. We wait with the right mouse button and click measure speed.

We are waiting for the start!

The program will show the ping, and the speed of incoming and outgoing.

Only the speed is shown not in MB (Internet connection), but in MB (download speed per second). Therefore, if you need to know the connection speed, then multiply this figure by 8. 11.3 * 8 = 90.4 MB, i.e. right, my connection is 100MB.